rockfreak wrote: ↑Sun Aug 04, 2019 9:24 pm
Imagine if Sejintenej had lived in ancient Rome. He'd have had quite a problem trying to etch his rambling thoughts on to clay tablets or papyrus or whatever it was they used then. He'd have been at it for months.
Being dyslexic I don't like writing though with time it has become easier. It was CH that forced me to fight against that weakness.
The longest epistle I can remember writing professionally came to 67 pages, single sided, A4, Ariel 12, single spacing and took about a day. Got a favourable win in court. Separately I did a series of documents for a single deal, probably coming to about the same length in total which got a front page mention in the FT.
A couple of shorter ones have done a bit better - 500 words and 25 minutes (including editing) = a very nice prize, and quote in the FT. Another semiprofessional piece got cash from the City of London - perhaps 20 minutes at the outside.
I haven't the patience to take much more time. It isn't the volume or the number of items but it is who reads them and the effect each has. I do get a bit of debate in another volume newspaper and also in it's internet discussion site
A centurian would have turned up and said: "Right Banquero Brownus, we're about to invade Gaul! Stop that silly scribbling, grab a spear and get fell in. ."
To which my reply would have been that a spear is one thing, a centurian's sword is another and an atlatl is a killing device (which Banquero Brownus has used) so where is mine? Oh, and I don't speak Latin.
And of course this is exactly the point where some public school pedant is likely to try and score points by telling me that Romans didn't get crucified; that was only for slaves - or something like that.
LOL I have no idea - I thought that they took the belly out of the tenth centurion with a sword. I prefered to score my points and get my prizes with an International 4. (which is where the CCF fu**ed up)
Correction; my biography is much longer but, yes, has taken much more time and I haven't even got to CH yet.